These Developers Just Took Their Characters Out Back And Shot Them. For Real.

There's retiring old video game characters by not using them any more, and then there's retiring old video game characters by building little models of them and destroying them.

Introversion, the developers of strategy game Darwinia, are done with the property. Having worked on it in some for another for nearly a decade now across its various forms, by 2010 they'd become so sick of the thing that they couldn't just let it go quietly into the night. They had to kill it. With fire.

Triple AAA games nailing the brief. Indie games surprising people out of nowhere, and expansions and patches that completely turn a game around. It's been a good year for games - now it's time for you to vote for your favourite.